{"id":648293,"date":"2025-12-22T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648293\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:48:35","slug":"first-picture-of-sex-worker-who-tied-up-and-robbed-aston-villa-fan-and-why-judge-didnt-crush-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648293\/","title":{"rendered":"First picture of sex worker who tied up and robbed Aston Villa fan and why judge didn&#8217;t &#8216;crush&#8217; her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caprice Brown was sentenced to nine years for robbing two men after luring them to hotels<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_escenic-4.jpg\" alt=\"Caprice Brown lured a man to the Jurys Inn on Broad Street, Birmingham to rob him\" loading=\"eager\" \/>Caprice Brown lured a man to the Jurys Inn on Broad Street, Birmingham to rob him<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This is the face of a sex worker who lured two lonely men to hotels so she could rob them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Caprice Brown targeted the first victim on dating app Badoo in July 2020, pretending her name was &#8216;Zara&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She met him at the Jurys Inn on Birmingham&#8217;s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/broad-street-birmingham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Broad Street<\/a>, bringing another woman with her, supposedly for her &#8216;personal safety&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">FULL STORY: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/aston-villa-fan-tied-up-33067987\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Aston Villa fan tied up, burnt with iron and robbed by sex worker in Birmingham hotel room<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The victim, who was an Aston Villa fan, agreed to be tied up but then was brutally attacked by the pair who pressed a hot iron against his body and punched him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Brown and the unidentified woman ran off with his wallet which contained his bank and store cards as well as his Villa season ticket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jurys-Inn.jpg\" alt=\"The former Jurys Inn hotel on Broad Street, Birmingham city centre\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The former Jurys Inn hotel on Broad Street, Birmingham city centre<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They later used his card to buy a \u00a3999 iPhone from Argos. Brown was involved in a second similar incident in September that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This time the victim was contacted on Tinder by a woman named &#8216;Maia&#8217;. He arranged to meet her at the Britannia Hotel in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/coventry\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Coventry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Karissa-Alfrez-aka-Damani-Scott-Slue.jpg\" alt=\"Damani Scott-Slue who identified as a woman named Karissa Alfrez in 2020\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Damani Scott-Slue who identified as a woman named Karissa Alfrez in 2020(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">After talking with the woman in the room for a while Brown and accomplice Karissa Alfrez came out of the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The victim agreed to be taped up and put in handcuffs, but then he was attacked and threatened with scissors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The three women left with his phone and bank card which was later used to transfer \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Brown, now 25, of no fixed address, was sentenced to nine years at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-crown-court\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> on December 15 after admitting two counts of robbery as well as fraud and assaulting an emergency worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But the mum-of-one was told she would only serve up to 40 per cent of the term in custody.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Caprice-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"Caprice Brown\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Caprice Brown(Image: West Midlands Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Judge Simon Drew KC said: &#8220;This sentence is designed to punish but not crush you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I hope at the end you see your son while he is still a child. You&#8217;ll be back with him soon enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Earlier, he had told Brown he had read a &#8216;great deal&#8217; about her from a pre-sentence report and psychiatric report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Judge Drew said: &#8220;Your upbringing was extremely difficult and I would be wholly unfair to you if I didn&#8217;t acknowledge that straight away and recognise that put you in a very difficult position as a child and going into adulthood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Nevertheless, he described the robberies as &#8216;really nasty offences&#8217;, as they involved taking advantage of lonely men during the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/coronavirus\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Covid<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Alfrez, also 25, and from The Leverrettes, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/handsworth-and-soho\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Handsworth<\/a>, now identifies as a man by the name of Damani Scott-Slue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He was found guilty of one count of robbery and was sentenced to six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caprice Brown was sentenced to nine years for robbing two men after luring them to hotelsCaprice Brown lured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,10386,748,82514,30,393,4884,13844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-648293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-birmingham-crown-court","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-broad-street-birmingham","13":"tag-courts","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-handsworth-and-soho","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115763303018766780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}